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Linus Torvalds
f568849eda Merge branch 'for-3.14/core' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block
Pull core block IO changes from Jens Axboe:
 "The major piece in here is the immutable bio_ve series from Kent, the
  rest is fairly minor.  It was supposed to go in last round, but
  various issues pushed it to this release instead.  The pull request
  contains:

   - Various smaller blk-mq fixes from different folks.  Nothing major
     here, just minor fixes and cleanups.

   - Fix for a memory leak in the error path in the block ioctl code
     from Christian Engelmayer.

   - Header export fix from CaiZhiyong.

   - Finally the immutable biovec changes from Kent Overstreet.  This
     enables some nice future work on making arbitrarily sized bios
     possible, and splitting more efficient.  Related fixes to immutable
     bio_vecs:

        - dm-cache immutable fixup from Mike Snitzer.
        - btrfs immutable fixup from Muthu Kumar.

  - bio-integrity fix from Nic Bellinger, which is also going to stable"

* 'for-3.14/core' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block: (44 commits)
  xtensa: fixup simdisk driver to work with immutable bio_vecs
  block/blk-mq-cpu.c: use hotcpu_notifier()
  blk-mq: for_each_* macro correctness
  block: Fix memory leak in rw_copy_check_uvector() handling
  bio-integrity: Fix bio_integrity_verify segment start bug
  block: remove unrelated header files and export symbol
  blk-mq: uses page->list incorrectly
  blk-mq: use __smp_call_function_single directly
  btrfs: fix missing increment of bi_remaining
  Revert "block: Warn and free bio if bi_end_io is not set"
  block: Warn and free bio if bi_end_io is not set
  blk-mq: fix initializing request's start time
  block: blk-mq: don't export blk_mq_free_queue()
  block: blk-mq: make blk_sync_queue support mq
  block: blk-mq: support draining mq queue
  dm cache: increment bi_remaining when bi_end_io is restored
  block: fixup for generic bio chaining
  block: Really silence spurious compiler warnings
  block: Silence spurious compiler warnings
  block: Kill bio_pair_split()
  ...
2014-01-30 11:19:05 -08:00
Mikulas Patocka
55b082e614 dm snapshot: use dm-bufio prefetch
This patch modifies dm-snapshot so that it prefetches the buffers when
loading the exceptions.

The number of buffers read ahead is specified in the DM_PREFETCH_CHUNKS
macro.  The current value for DM_PREFETCH_CHUNKS (12) was found to
provide the best performance on a single 15k SCSI spindle.  In the
future we may modify this default or make it configurable.

Also, introduce the function dm_bufio_set_minimum_buffers to setup
bufio's number of internal buffers before freeing happens.  dm-bufio may
hold more buffers if enough memory is available.  There is no guarantee
that the specified number of buffers will be available - if you need a
guarantee, use the argument reserved_buffers for
dm_bufio_client_create.

Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
2014-01-14 23:23:03 -05:00
Mikulas Patocka
55494bf294 dm snapshot: use dm-bufio
Use dm-bufio for initial loading of the exceptions.
Introduce a new function dm_bufio_forget that frees the given buffer.

Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
2014-01-14 23:23:02 -05:00
Jens Axboe
b28bc9b38c Linux 3.13-rc6
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Merge tag 'v3.13-rc6' into for-3.14/core

Needed to bring blk-mq uptodate, since changes have been going in
since for-3.14/core was established.

Fixup merge issues related to the immutable biovec changes.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>

Conflicts:
	block/blk-flush.c
	fs/btrfs/check-integrity.c
	fs/btrfs/extent_io.c
	fs/btrfs/scrub.c
	fs/logfs/dev_bdev.c
2013-12-31 09:51:02 -07:00
Mikulas Patocka
4cb57ab4a2 dm bufio: initialize read-only module parameters
Some module parameters in dm-bufio are read-only. These parameters
inform the user about memory consumption. They are not supposed to be
changed by the user.

However, despite being read-only, these parameters can be set on
modprobe or insmod command line, for example:
modprobe dm-bufio current_allocated_bytes=12345

The kernel doesn't expect that these variables can be non-zero at module
initialization and if the user sets them, it results in BUG.

This patch initializes the variables in the module init routine, so that
user-supplied values are ignored.

Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # 3.2+
2013-12-10 19:13:20 -05:00
Kent Overstreet
4f024f3797 block: Abstract out bvec iterator
Immutable biovecs are going to require an explicit iterator. To
implement immutable bvecs, a later patch is going to add a bi_bvec_done
member to this struct; for now, this patch effectively just renames
things.

Signed-off-by: Kent Overstreet <kmo@daterainc.com>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: "Ed L. Cashin" <ecashin@coraid.com>
Cc: Nick Piggin <npiggin@kernel.dk>
Cc: Lars Ellenberg <drbd-dev@lists.linbit.com>
Cc: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Geoff Levand <geoff@infradead.org>
Cc: Yehuda Sadeh <yehuda@inktank.com>
Cc: Sage Weil <sage@inktank.com>
Cc: Alex Elder <elder@inktank.com>
Cc: ceph-devel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Joshua Morris <josh.h.morris@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Philip Kelleher <pjk1939@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>
Cc: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
Cc: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>
Cc: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Cc: Alasdair Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
Cc: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
Cc: dm-devel@redhat.com
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Cc: linux390@de.ibm.com
Cc: Boaz Harrosh <bharrosh@panasas.com>
Cc: Benny Halevy <bhalevy@tonian.com>
Cc: "James E.J. Bottomley" <JBottomley@parallels.com>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: "Nicholas A. Bellinger" <nab@linux-iscsi.org>
Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Chris Mason <chris.mason@fusionio.com>
Cc: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Cc: Andreas Dilger <adilger.kernel@dilger.ca>
Cc: Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk.kim@samsung.com>
Cc: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
Cc: Dave Kleikamp <shaggy@kernel.org>
Cc: Joern Engel <joern@logfs.org>
Cc: Prasad Joshi <prasadjoshi.linux@gmail.com>
Cc: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
Cc: KONISHI Ryusuke <konishi.ryusuke@lab.ntt.co.jp>
Cc: Mark Fasheh <mfasheh@suse.com>
Cc: Joel Becker <jlbec@evilplan.org>
Cc: Ben Myers <bpm@sgi.com>
Cc: xfs@oss.sgi.com
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
Cc: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl>
Cc: Herton Ronaldo Krzesinski <herton.krzesinski@canonical.com>
Cc: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Guo Chao <yan@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Asai Thambi S P <asamymuthupa@micron.com>
Cc: Selvan Mani <smani@micron.com>
Cc: Sam Bradshaw <sbradshaw@micron.com>
Cc: Wei Yongjun <yongjun_wei@trendmicro.com.cn>
Cc: "Roger Pau Monné" <roger.pau@citrix.com>
Cc: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com>
Cc: Stefano Stabellini <stefano.stabellini@eu.citrix.com>
Cc: Ian Campbell <Ian.Campbell@citrix.com>
Cc: Sebastian Ott <sebott@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Cc: Jiang Liu <jiang.liu@huawei.com>
Cc: Nitin Gupta <ngupta@vflare.org>
Cc: Jerome Marchand <jmarchand@redhat.com>
Cc: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Cc: Peng Tao <tao.peng@emc.com>
Cc: Andy Adamson <andros@netapp.com>
Cc: fanchaoting <fanchaoting@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Jie Liu <jeff.liu@oracle.com>
Cc: Sunil Mushran <sunil.mushran@gmail.com>
Cc: "Martin K. Petersen" <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
Cc: Namjae Jeon <namjae.jeon@samsung.com>
Cc: Pankaj Kumar <pankaj.km@samsung.com>
Cc: Dan Magenheimer <dan.magenheimer@oracle.com>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>6
2013-11-23 22:33:47 -08:00
Dave Chinner
7dc19d5aff drivers: convert shrinkers to new count/scan API
Convert the driver shrinkers to the new API.  Most changes are compile
tested only because I either don't have the hardware or it's staging
stuff.

FWIW, the md and android code is pretty good, but the rest of it makes me
want to claw my eyes out.  The amount of broken code I just encountered is
mind boggling.  I've added comments explaining what is broken, but I fear
that some of the code would be best dealt with by being dragged behind the
bike shed, burying in mud up to it's neck and then run over repeatedly
with a blunt lawn mower.

Special mention goes to the zcache/zcache2 drivers.  They can't co-exist
in the build at the same time, they are under different menu options in
menuconfig, they only show up when you've got the right set of mm
subsystem options configured and so even compile testing is an exercise in
pulling teeth.  And that doesn't even take into account the horrible,
broken code...

[glommer@openvz.org: fixes for i915, android lowmem, zcache, bcache]
Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Glauber Costa <glommer@openvz.org>
Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Cc: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch>
Cc: Kent Overstreet <koverstreet@google.com>
Cc: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Jerome Glisse <jglisse@redhat.com>
Cc: Thomas Hellstrom <thellstrom@vmware.com>
Cc: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Artem Bityutskiy <artem.bityutskiy@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Arve Hjønnevåg <arve@android.com>
Cc: Carlos Maiolino <cmaiolino@redhat.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@oracle.com>
Cc: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Gleb Natapov <gleb@redhat.com>
Cc: Greg Thelen <gthelen@google.com>
Cc: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@redhat.com>
Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Cc: Jerome Glisse <jglisse@redhat.com>
Cc: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Kent Overstreet <koverstreet@google.com>
Cc: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Cc: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
Cc: Thomas Hellstrom <thellstrom@vmware.com>
Cc: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2013-09-10 18:56:32 -04:00
Mikulas Patocka
2480945cd4 dm bufio: submit writes outside lock
This patch changes dm-bufio so that it submits write I/Os outside of the
lock. If the number of submitted buffers is greater than the number of
requests on the target queue, submit_bio blocks. We want to block outside
of the lock to improve latency of other threads that may need the lock.

Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
2013-07-10 23:41:18 +01:00
Mikulas Patocka
220cd058d9 dm: use __GFP_HIGHMEM in __vmalloc
Use __GFP_HIGHMEM in __vmalloc.

Pages allocated with __vmalloc can be allocated in high memory that is not
directly mapped to kernel space, so use __GFP_HIGHMEM just like vmalloc
does. This patch reduces memory pressure slightly because pages can be
allocated in the high zone.

Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
2013-07-10 23:41:16 +01:00
Mikulas Patocka
502624bdad dm bufio: avoid a possible __vmalloc deadlock
This patch uses memalloc_noio_save to avoid a possible deadlock in
dm-bufio.  (it could happen only with large block size, at most
PAGE_SIZE << MAX_ORDER (typically 8MiB).

__vmalloc doesn't fully respect gfp flags. The specified gfp flags are
used for allocation of requested pages, structures vmap_area, vmap_block
and vm_struct and the radix tree nodes.

However, the kernel pagetables are allocated always with GFP_KERNEL.
Thus the allocation of pagetables can recurse back to the I/O layer and
cause a deadlock.

This patch uses the function memalloc_noio_save to set per-process
PF_MEMALLOC_NOIO flag and the function memalloc_noio_restore to restore
it. When this flag is set, all allocations in the process are done with
implied GFP_NOIO flag, thus the deadlock can't happen.

This should be backported to stable kernels, but they don't have the
PF_MEMALLOC_NOIO flag and memalloc_noio_save/memalloc_noio_restore
functions. So, PF_MEMALLOC should be set and restored instead.

Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
2013-05-10 14:37:15 +01:00
Mikulas Patocka
3b6b7813b1 dm verity: avoid deadlock
A deadlock was found in the prefetch code in the dm verity map
function.  This patch fixes this by transferring the prefetch
to a worker thread and skipping it completely if kmalloc fails.

If generic_make_request is called recursively, it queues the I/O
request on the current->bio_list without making the I/O request
and returns. The routine making the recursive call cannot wait
for the I/O to complete.

The deadlock occurs when one thread grabs the bufio_client
mutex and waits for an I/O to complete but the I/O is queued
on another thread's current->bio_list and is waiting to get
the mutex held by the first thread.

The fix recognises that prefetching is not essential.  If memory
can be allocated, it queues the prefetch request to the worker thread,
but if not, it does nothing.

Signed-off-by: Paul Taysom <taysom@chromium.org>
Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
2013-03-20 17:21:25 +00:00
Mikulas Patocka
3daec3b447 dm bufio: use WRITE_FLUSH instead of REQ_FLUSH
Use WRITE_FLUSH instead of REQ_FLUSH for submitted requests to make it
consistent with the rest of the kernel. There is no functional change.

Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
2013-03-01 22:45:45 +00:00
Sasha Levin
b67bfe0d42 hlist: drop the node parameter from iterators
I'm not sure why, but the hlist for each entry iterators were conceived

        list_for_each_entry(pos, head, member)

The hlist ones were greedy and wanted an extra parameter:

        hlist_for_each_entry(tpos, pos, head, member)

Why did they need an extra pos parameter? I'm not quite sure. Not only
they don't really need it, it also prevents the iterator from looking
exactly like the list iterator, which is unfortunate.

Besides the semantic patch, there was some manual work required:

 - Fix up the actual hlist iterators in linux/list.h
 - Fix up the declaration of other iterators based on the hlist ones.
 - A very small amount of places were using the 'node' parameter, this
 was modified to use 'obj->member' instead.
 - Coccinelle didn't handle the hlist_for_each_entry_safe iterator
 properly, so those had to be fixed up manually.

The semantic patch which is mostly the work of Peter Senna Tschudin is here:

@@
iterator name hlist_for_each_entry, hlist_for_each_entry_continue, hlist_for_each_entry_from, hlist_for_each_entry_rcu, hlist_for_each_entry_rcu_bh, hlist_for_each_entry_continue_rcu_bh, for_each_busy_worker, ax25_uid_for_each, ax25_for_each, inet_bind_bucket_for_each, sctp_for_each_hentry, sk_for_each, sk_for_each_rcu, sk_for_each_from, sk_for_each_safe, sk_for_each_bound, hlist_for_each_entry_safe, hlist_for_each_entry_continue_rcu, nr_neigh_for_each, nr_neigh_for_each_safe, nr_node_for_each, nr_node_for_each_safe, for_each_gfn_indirect_valid_sp, for_each_gfn_sp, for_each_host;

type T;
expression a,c,d,e;
identifier b;
statement S;
@@

-T b;
    <+... when != b
(
hlist_for_each_entry(a,
- b,
c, d) S
|
hlist_for_each_entry_continue(a,
- b,
c) S
|
hlist_for_each_entry_from(a,
- b,
c) S
|
hlist_for_each_entry_rcu(a,
- b,
c, d) S
|
hlist_for_each_entry_rcu_bh(a,
- b,
c, d) S
|
hlist_for_each_entry_continue_rcu_bh(a,
- b,
c) S
|
for_each_busy_worker(a, c,
- b,
d) S
|
ax25_uid_for_each(a,
- b,
c) S
|
ax25_for_each(a,
- b,
c) S
|
inet_bind_bucket_for_each(a,
- b,
c) S
|
sctp_for_each_hentry(a,
- b,
c) S
|
sk_for_each(a,
- b,
c) S
|
sk_for_each_rcu(a,
- b,
c) S
|
sk_for_each_from
-(a, b)
+(a)
S
+ sk_for_each_from(a) S
|
sk_for_each_safe(a,
- b,
c, d) S
|
sk_for_each_bound(a,
- b,
c) S
|
hlist_for_each_entry_safe(a,
- b,
c, d, e) S
|
hlist_for_each_entry_continue_rcu(a,
- b,
c) S
|
nr_neigh_for_each(a,
- b,
c) S
|
nr_neigh_for_each_safe(a,
- b,
c, d) S
|
nr_node_for_each(a,
- b,
c) S
|
nr_node_for_each_safe(a,
- b,
c, d) S
|
- for_each_gfn_sp(a, c, d, b) S
+ for_each_gfn_sp(a, c, d) S
|
- for_each_gfn_indirect_valid_sp(a, c, d, b) S
+ for_each_gfn_indirect_valid_sp(a, c, d) S
|
for_each_host(a,
- b,
c) S
|
for_each_host_safe(a,
- b,
c, d) S
|
for_each_mesh_entry(a,
- b,
c, d) S
)
    ...+>

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: drop bogus change from net/ipv4/raw.c]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: drop bogus hunk from net/ipv6/raw.c]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: checkpatch fixes]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix warnings]
[akpm@linux-foudnation.org: redo intrusive kvm changes]
Tested-by: Peter Senna Tschudin <peter.senna@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@oracle.com>
Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Cc: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Cc: Gleb Natapov <gleb@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2013-02-27 19:10:24 -08:00
Mikulas Patocka
fe5fe90639 dm: use ACCESS_ONCE for sysfs values
Use the ACCESS_ONCE macro in dm-bufio and dm-verity where a variable
can be modified asynchronously (through sysfs) and we want to prevent
compiler optimizations that assume that the variable hasn't changed.
(See Documentation/atomic_ops.txt.)

Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
2012-10-12 16:59:46 +01:00
Wei Yongjun
54499afbb8 dm bufio: use list_move
Use list_move() instead of list_del() + list_add().

spatch with a semantic match was used to find this.
(http://coccinelle.lip6.fr/)

Signed-off-by: Wei Yongjun <yongjun_wei@trendmicro.com.cn>
Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
2012-10-12 16:59:44 +01:00
Mikulas Patocka
a66cc28f53 dm bufio: prefetch
This patch introduces a new function dm_bufio_prefetch. It prefetches
the specified range of blocks into dm-bufio cache without waiting
for i/o completion.

Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
2012-03-28 18:41:29 +01:00
Jesper Juhl
ad075370ba dm-bufio.c: there's no need to include linux/version.h
As 'make versioncheck' points out, drivers/md/dm-bufio.c has no need to include
linux/version.h, so this patch removes the unneeded include.

Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <jj@chaosbits.net>
Acked-by: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
2012-02-03 22:38:12 +01:00
Stephen Rothwell
6f66263f8e device-mapper: dm-bufio.c needs to include module.h
since it uses the module facilities.

Reported-by: Witold Baryluk <baryluk@smp.if.uj.edu.pl>
Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-11-07 10:29:10 -08:00
Mikulas Patocka
95d402f057 dm: add bufio
The dm-bufio interface allows you to do cached I/O on devices,
holding recently-read blocks in memory and performing delayed writes.

We don't use buffer cache or page cache already present in the kernel, because:
* we need to handle block sizes larger than a page
* we can't allocate memory to perform reads or we'd have deadlocks

Currently, when a cache is required, we limit its size to a fraction of
available memory.  Usage can be viewed and changed in
/sys/module/dm_bufio/parameters/ .

The first user is thin provisioning, but more dm users are planned.

Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
2011-10-31 20:19:09 +00:00